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zachgalant
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About zachgalant
Live in Chicago
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CodeHS | Curriculum Engineer | Full Time | ONSITE (San Francisco) | www.codehs.com/jobs Want to help change the face of computer science education around the world?Join the CodeHS …
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CodeHS | Curriculum Engineer | Full Time | ONSITE (San Francisco) | www.codehs.com/jobs Want to help change the face of computer science education around the world?Join the CodeHS …
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CodeHS | CS Curriculum Engineer | San Francisco Want to help change the face of computer science education around the world?Join the CodeHS team as a curriculum engineer. As a curr…
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Comment #9530068
We also have an interactive online SQL course at CodeHS (completely client side as well). You can check it out at https://codehs.com/sql or try out the first hour free at https://c…
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CodeHS | CS Curriculum Engineer | San Francisco Want to help change the face of computer science education around the world?Join the CodeHS team as a curriculum engineer. As a curr…
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CodeHS - San Francisco - Full Time - Curriculum Engineer Want to help change the face of computer science education around the world?Join the CodeHS team as a curriculum engineer. …
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Comment #7356380
CodeHS: Software Engineer in San Francisco CodeHS is a site that helps teach computer science to beginners with a focus on working with high schools. We work with students and scho…
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Comment #5806855
CodeHS - http://codehs.com San Francisco, CA Come help grow and scale CodeHS and help teach programming to high school students all over the world. We have positions open in Busine…
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Comment #5630533
You should really check out CodeHS -- http://codehs.com It's focused on providing a strong fundamental background to absolute beginners, so they learn not just how to write a progr…
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Comment #5535304
congrats, guys!
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Comment #5461953
I've done a lot of teaching programming. Mainly to beginners while at Stanford and now to beginners aged 5 to 85 using http://codehs.com
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Comment #5316238
The video is clearly meant to be inspiring. A lot of people think programming is too hard for them or not accessible at all, but that's simply not true. It's worth inspiring them t…
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Comment #5300559
Yeah, we are definitely planning to switch to more of that system for a pricing model, and we are not happy with our current pricing. It was kind of an MVP for pricing to get somet…
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Comment #5291433
working fine for me. I think it might just be an issue with ubuntu.
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Comment #5290879
You really should look at http://codehs.com We don't force feed anything, and everything is motivated because it's fun. We teach problem solving through coding, but it's really sim…
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Comment #5290304
Thanks! yeah, we're hoping that professional software developers will help out just to feel good and help people. The extrinsic motivation is more for the students who can either l…
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Comment #5290300
you'd be shocked at how many ways people who don't code can get stuck when trying to learn. Many times, they can't even form their question any better than "My code is broken. What…
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Comment #5290075
Yeah, we're still working on exactly how tutors get paid. For now, it's still in beta, so we're just asking for volunteers and getting feedback and figuring out a fair way to pay p…
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Comment #5289696
I'm making www.codehs.com which is one of the sites featured in the video (the one with the dog). It would be awesome to get some feedback on what people think of it if you get a c…
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Comment #5237518
We are teaching basic JavaScript to beginners at http://codehs.com We've made some simplified libraries that make everything a bit simpler to get really cool results, and kids have…
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Comment #5194909
If you're trying to learn JavaScript, you should check out http://codehs.com We're making it really easy and fun for beginners, and we provide help and feedback on all of your code…
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Comment #5186775
No plans for matlab just yet, but it's on our longer term todo list. She'd learn these topics: * Function decomposition * programming style * good problem decomposition * parameter…
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Comment #5186748
no, we don't teach matlab. maybe we'll add that in the future. for now, I think she'd just get a lot out of learning some of the fundamentals of programming rather than diving stra…
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Comment #5186727
She needs to check out http://codehs.com (disclosure: I'm a cofounder). We make it really easy and accessible for people to get started even without having a background. We've had …